Are Siri and Cortana AI programs?
Siri and Cortana are AI to some extent. The usual label is &quot;weak AI&quot; (also called &quot;narrow&quot; or &quot;soft&quot; AI). It turns out the Wikipedia article on Weak AI explicitly refers to Siri:

Siri is a good example of narrow intelligence. Siri operates within a limited pre-defined range, there is no genuine intelligence, no self-awareness, no life despite being a sophisticated example of weak AI. In Forbes (2011), Ted Greenwald wrote: &quot;The iPhone/Siri marriage represents the arrival of hybrid AI, combining several narrow AI techniques plus access to massive data in the cloud.&quot; AI researcher Ben Goertzel, on his blog in 2010, stated Siri was &quot;VERY narrow and brittle&quot; evidenced by annoying results if you ask questions outside the limits of the application.

Important to note that &quot;mixing&quot; weak AIs does not make a &quot;stronger&quot; AI, by some arguments (see Searle's Chinese Room argument), but there is no consensus on this topic yet.